 By the way, I'm really sorry about how bad my hair is, but it was really sad to see Bismuth, one of the best K-Win Thailand script out there, stop working on the release of KDA Plasma 5.27. Really sad, especially since this Plasma release brought new Thailand functionalities that were supposed to allow scripts to do even cooler stuff. Luckily, it was only a matter of time before some awesome person would use this API to bring back our favorite features. This is exactly what happened. The name is Polonium, and it's an unofficial successor to Bismuth for the latest KDA Plasma on Wayland. So, big question now. Does it work well? Is it of any use? It's extremely promising. It does integrate with KDA styling system, that is, you can press meta T to see all of the tiles and you can resize them, and the size changes will immediately apply to the window underneath as well, which is really nice. You can also, through KDA's UI, create new tiles. If you do that, windows will adapt to the size of these new tiles. However, support for adding new tiles is currently limited, and actually adding new windows will immediately reset your configuration. So, I hope that in the future, adding and removing tiles will have a more long lasting effect on the tiling manager. Let's say that you have a floating window and you again want to tile it. So, Polonium nicely integrates with the KWIN on styling system, which uses the meta shift to preview where your window is gonna end up being tiled. So, you can choose a tile and the window will be indeed added there. If you instead try to move with a mouse any window, it will switch from tiling to floating, and all other windows will change their position and place accordingly. Which raises an important question. That is, how can I quickly swap the position of tiled windows? With other scripts, I was used to just drag and drop the window from where it was to where I wanted to tile it. But that makes the whole window switch from to floating, which completely messes up with the layout. So, sadly enough, there is no simple way to do that through the mouse. Instead, there are K bindings for this. They're quite standard, meta to move focus, control meta to swap windows, meta shift to push a window into a tile. For some reason, they did not work on my computer at all, but I actually dislike tiling shortcuts entirely, so it's not a big loss for me. It's probably some weirdness going on with the shortcut system settings module, I don't know. So, we do have some options to configure Polonium. You can decide to go with the white list approach, which will only tile a certain list of windows that you can set. And to be fully honest, I do not see what's the use case here, and I'm really curious. So, if you can tell me in the comments, I would be very happy. The rest of the options are really confusing, and I yet to open the documentation to understand them. So, I would really suggest that the developers tweak them. So, we have tiled popup windows to decide whether popups should be tiled or not. A drop down right next to it, which is actually its own option and has nothing to do with popups, and has no text to actually explain what it does, which allows you to decide whether you want the borders for the tiled windows or not. The options are just as confusing. You have no border all, which means that no window is going to get a border, floating or tiled. No border tiled, meaning that tiled windows won't have borders. Border selected, I have no idea what this is, and border all, meaning that all windows will have a border. You then have invert selection, which is not under documentation, and the name tells me nothing of what it is. On the right, we have another unrelated option called keep tiled below, which will, when enabled, always keep the floating windows above the tiled ones. And I would really suggest, again, to change the labels to something that is more understandable and to give each option its own role, as putting two options side by side will make people think that they are somehow related. Finally, we can change the tiling engine. There are three out of the box on my computer, but five under documentation, I don't know why. The first one is breath first binary tree engine. A second one is half, which puts one main window on the left and several to the right. And finally, we have floating, which basically turns off polonium. This is relevant, as we can switch between these tiling engines on a per desktop basis. And the floating option basically allows you to set a desktop where polonium is turned off whilst still having the tiles in the other desktops, which is good stuff. This is everything that the styling script offers. It's not as complete as some other options. And there are some issues still. As an example, you can easily tile back a window if you only have the other one other tile window, the meta shift trick just won't work in that scenario. If you're a fan of some lighter tiling, you might still be interested in exquisite another great tiling tool that works super nicely in 5.27. It allows you to press meta alt D opens up a dialogue with various tiling options and then you just pick where you would like to place the window. However, similarly to Kevin's own tiling, this does not do auto tiling. Do let me say that it's quite surprising just how fragmented the KD tiling script since is. You would expect over the years and years, the improvements to be slowly converging towards one main script. And yet with Cronkite, Bismuth and Apolonium, it feels like every couple of years the main KD tiling script changes. I wonder if this is because of us KD developers not providing a good enough API or something. It's not clear to me exactly what the issue could be, to be fully honest. But if we want to make a comparison with Bismuth, and we kind of have to, given that Apolonium wants to be an unofficial successor, there's lots of very cool things that Bismuth had that I missed. As an example, Bismuth had its own page in KD system settings, which is a great example of good integration with KD Plasma, with a lot of options, including GUPS as an example. Other things that were on the roadmap for Bismuth were, as an example, a tray item to toggle tiling on and off, similarly to POPOS. And in fact, I would love to see a full-fledged applet in the system tray that showcases all tiling options and allows for quick toggle on and off. Of course, this is a high bar to set and Apolonium didn't even exist just a few weeks ago. So with this video, I really don't want to put any unnecessary stress over the developer. I think the work they're doing is great. And I really wanted to share my opinion on what I think it does really well and what I think it could improve and what I think could be cool stuff to work on in the future to make this the KD tiling script. So as I like to do when I highlight these cool projects, all of the run venue of this video will be redirected to the developer scoff page, which is in the description of this video. Go check it out. They say that they need the donations, so I'll try to help out with what I can. If you instead want to contribute to my channel to keep all of this going, please do actually. Doing these videos not only takes a lot of time, but also a lot of money in editing and equipment. I do have Patrons and Co-Fi and I do offer rewards to those who contribute. I am lagging behind with the posts and the podcast, but I'll be soon back with regular posting them regularly. I can't speak today, so if you can and haven't already, I would love a little tip to reach my monthly 700 bucks goal. 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